“I am willing,” said Hehku.
Jupka brought a blue stone and sat on it. He had a walking-stick made of the heart of sugar-pine; this he put at his side.
Hehku arranged the bone, put it in her left hand, and Jupka said “lililim” (let it be north) but said the word in such a way that another would think he said “ililim,” and Hehku thought so, too; the bone remained in her left hand. She brought both hands from behind her back, opened them, and was going to throw the bone to kill Jupka.
“Stop! What did I say?” asked Jupka.
“Ililim.”
“No, I said ‘lililim;’ look north and see.”
Hehku looked north and saw Wahkalu (Mount Shasta), Jupka’s Igunna, his great new house which he made by saying “lililim.” Wahkalu was white, shining. Hehku had never seen anything so beautiful, so great. She had never seen it before, neither had any one else.
The bone was there in her open left hand on the north side, she could not deny. She could not change her play, she could not help herself. Jupka seized the bone, threw it to the floor. The earth trembled; there was a roar like thunder; the bone bounded up and killed Hehku. Jupka threw her out of the sweat-house.
“You must play too,” said Jupka to Miniau Marimi.
He put the bone behind his back; she guessed, lost her life, and was thrown out of the sweat-house.